Scott Weston

A UNIX Systems Administrator, Developer and Hacker

About Me

I’m a Ballarat based IT professional with over 20 years industry experience, 5 of which employed at Google. The full details of my employment history is available on my LinkedIn profile.

I donate time and experience to a local non-profit (The Ballarat Hackerspace) that provides the Ballarat region with a workshop and promotes STEM fields. Most days I can be found working out of the Lab 79 co-working facility in Ballarat.

Non-profits

If you are a local[1] non-profit or community group then I am very keen to help you out with small/medium sized projects (providing the organisation is completely nondiscriminatory towards race, gender and sexual identity/preference). Non-profits and community groups do amazing work and I hate to see them over spend on IT when that money could be better spent providing their services to the community.

create incentives for companies like Tesla to build cars and batteries in Australia

Australia could be the first entirely renewably powered continent!

This is entirely achievable with current technology

This would employ and train an incredibly large number of people and get us innovating again

Universal basic income

Self driving trucks, buses, taxis and cars are coming very soon and we’re currently ignoring the impact this will have on employment

Automation is coming faster than people can be retrained, we need to be thinking of solutions now

We are a perfectly sized population to trial replacing existing welfare with a UBI

Space

Where is our space program?!

Out of the 34 OECD countries only 2 are not represented in the international community by a space agency: Australia and Iceland.

We used to be a country of innovation, now we seem to be the country of sitting back and watching the rest of the world innovate

We need to inspire our kids to do amazing things here in Australia, not emigrate to do amazing things

My Tesla

I own and drive a Tesla Model S, it is primarily charged from the solar panels on my roof or the renewable energy from Tesla Superchargers. If you have questions about Tesla ownership feel free to contact me, fair warning – I will talk your ear off.

If any of the above inspires you to buy a Tesla you can use my referral link to save yourself some money ($1400 in Australia, ~$1000 USD elsewhere) and get unlimited supercharging for your Tesla: http://ts.la/scott1272 (you definitely want to use a referral code).